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mircea_popescu: this seems to be the contemporary brain disease, people reading stuff they don't understand here and there, mashing it into a sort of compound
mircea_popescu: actually... what if usagi and eskimo bob joined forces
mircea_popescu: Namworld certainly. this way misunderstandings are found early.
mircea_popescu: Namworld almost everyone else doesn't have much to say.
mircea_popescu: which is a great way to become a laughingstock, sure, but also a great way to find obscure bugs.
mircea_popescu: i enjoy arguing with him mostly because he seems to go about things in a totally different way than anyone else
mircea_popescu: <Namworld> No amount of testing would have found the issue.
mircea_popescu: the issue is with berkley db, which was on the way out
mircea_popescu: jborkl_ i've always been slow to upgrade, specifically for lack of faith.
mircea_popescu: nobody is saying "shouldhave been tested more by itself in a vacuum"
mircea_popescu: unauthoritatively my it says berkley seems to choke in this case over about 10k records
mircea_popescu: smickles gotta give props to gavin, he's one of the few that are actually contrite enough.
mircea_popescu: obviously not the amount of testing they were willing to do in between chat session and harassinfg the userbase found it
mircea_popescu: any statement that claims "no amout of testing" is a lie by its nature
mircea_popescu: in a sense this backhandedly proves how strong the idea is
mircea_popescu: jborkl_ the idea is strong, the implementation horrible
mircea_popescu: "It's about as bad as everywhere else on the planet, I guess, with the single exception of Romania," Asia Pacific Network Information Centre's chief scientist, Geoff Huston, said in an interview with ZDNet Australia.
mircea_popescu: In Australia, IPv6 adoption is almost non-existent, reports Josh Taylor.
mircea_popescu: i don't think so. gpumax dissapeared with pirate, as the sane people were saying back in february 2012.
mircea_popescu: is the main strategic purpose of having a devteam in the first place.
mircea_popescu: keeping money ideologically neutral, implementing the old pecunia non olet
mircea_popescu: the same applies ideologically too. the network won't get attacked for as long as it manages to not stupidly offend.
mircea_popescu: just leave it stand as it is. the theoretical response to a 51% attack is that the attacker would make more by mining.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic that's fine, but you pervert the choices when you add riders such as "one is really vanishingly small"
mircea_popescu: sure, irrelevant ventures aren't part of the discussion, if bitcoin stays alpacca we're wasting our time with these concerns/
mircea_popescu: that;s brancing the discussion off the germane path tho
mircea_popescu: pigeons if we shouldn't, there should not be call for doing it.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic not so. you will be surprised to find attackers routinely forego hitting higher payoff cooler targets
mircea_popescu: same thing pigeons. as long as you're making that call your ass is too tight.
mircea_popescu: suppose there is one attacker such as you've modeled him.
mircea_popescu: suppose buttcoin has some devs that think all usecases are equally valid, and dorkcoin has some devs who believe using the coin for gambling is spam.
mircea_popescu: looser in the ass ? it means being used with being fucked in that orrifice.
mircea_popescu: if the devs were a little looser in the ass, would the sort of econ savvy attackers stay that side or join this side ?
mircea_popescu: and you must never presume political acumen on the part of anyone.
mircea_popescu: but selecting the coin to attack is not a technical problem.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic no. because attacker wouldn't know which to attack.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly candid, many people involved in bitcoin are good honest and well meaning individuals, who know about things. usually those things are coding.
mircea_popescu: end of story. money itself is a centralising factor, and as such the slightest flicker amplifies
mircea_popescu: eventually the fork resolves economically simply because mining costs money.
mircea_popescu: if you sell b and buy a the price of all will go up and the price of b down.
mircea_popescu: if you had 10 bitcoins today prefork, you will have 10 a 10b and 10 c bitcoins after the fork.
mircea_popescu: in short : suppose chain forks into 3 different chains today, a b and c
mircea_popescu: BingoBongo have you read the girl's explanation of why multiforks resolve and aren't a problem economically ?